Which novel contains a character known as "Little Father Time"?

"Jude the Obscure" was first published in book form in 1895, and is the last completed novel of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). It tells the story of Jude Fawley, a stonemason of humble origins who has a love of learning and aspires to be a student at Christminster (which is a thinly disguised version of Oxford).

Although Jude is plainly gifted, and teaches himself the classics, both his financial situation and the social mores of the time conspire against him, and though he does eventually go to live in Oxford, he still works as a stonemason.

The book interweaves his troubled love life with his academic aspirations. He has an early involvement with a girl called Arabella, who traps him into marriage by feigning pregnancy, and later emigrates to Australia.

Later he meets his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is a very independent minded, unconventional, and intelligent woman. She marries a schoolteacher, but it is a loveless marriage, and she leaves him to cohabit with Jude.

Arabella has a son born in Australia, whom she sends back to England to be cared for by Jude. He is called Jude, too, but always known as "Little Father Time" on account of his solemn demeanour and unchildlike ways. Sue and Jude senior have two children of their own, but there is to be no happy ending. Thinking he and his half-siblings are a drain on their parents, "Little Father Time" murders them and takes his own life, leaving the poignant message "Done because we are too menny" (sic).